Agrimonia gryposepala

Common agrimony, Common Agrimony

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Common agrimony is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, the northern Sierra Nevada, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, Sierra Nevada, San Bernardo Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in moist woodland habitats at elevations of 100 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces small yellow flowers in elongated clusters 9 to 43 centimeters long with multiple flower heads. Growing with slender stems 25 to 130 centimeters tall that are covered with short-stalked glands, it has an upright, somewhat branching habit. Its compound leaves are large, typically 10 to 25 centimeters long, with 3 to 11 leaflets that are elliptic to diamond-shaped, covered in coarse straight hairs and dotted with glandular surfaces. The fruit develops a hooked bristly hypanthium 2.5 to 6 millimeters long, with bristles arranged in 4 to 5 distinctive rows.

Habitat: Moist places, generally in woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 100-1700 m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCo), CaRH, n SNF/n SNH, n SNH, SnBr, PR

California counties: Butte, Placer, Lake, El Dorado, San Diego, San Bernardino, Mendocino, Nevada, Sonoma, Yuba, Shasta, Trinity, Napa, Humboldt, Plumas

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.